Sounding more like a plain-talking, fair dinkum Aussie by the day, Daria Kasatkina can't help explaining she's been battling to "swim out of the shit" and reboot her faltering career.
And after victory in a first-round match against Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez at the French Open that she reckons she would have lost a couple of weeks ago, the rejuvenated tennis import's smile on Monday demonstrated she really is gradually extricating herself from the mire.
